[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

gaudy \gaud"y\, a. compar. gaudier; superl. gauidiest.
   1. ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or
      meretricious.
      1913 webster

            costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
            but not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. gay; merry; festal. --tennyson.
      1913 webster

            let's have one other gaudy night.     --shak.
      1913 webster
see also:
gaudier gauidiest 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

gaudy \gaud"y\, n.; pl. gaudies see gaud, n.
   one of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster
   is recited. obs. --gower.
   1913 webster
see also:
gaudies gaud 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

gaudy \gaud"y\, n.
   a feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy
   day. oxford univ. --conybeare.
   1913 webster
see also:
gaud-day gaudy day 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

gaudy
     adj 1: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish
            colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a
            meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
            syn: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish,
            gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty,
            tawdry, trashy
     2: used especially of clothes marked by conspicuous display
        syn: flashy, jazzy, showy, sporty
     n : a celebratory feast held annually at one of the colleges in
         a british university
     also: gaudiest, gaudier
see also:
brassy cheap flash flashy garish gimcrack 
loud meretricious tacky tatty tawdry 
trashy jazzy showy sporty gaudiest 
gaudier 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

127 moby thesaurus words for "gaudy":
   gongoresque, johnsonian, affected, bedizened, beggarly,
   beneath contempt, big-sounding, blatant, blinding, brazen,
   brazenfaced, brummagem, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, coarse, colorful,
   common, contemptible, convoluted, crass, crude, crummy,
   declamatory, despicable, earthy, elevated, euphuistic, extravagant,
   fake, flagrant, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashy, flaunting,
   florid, fulsome, garish, gimcrack, gimcracky, glaring, gorgeous,
   grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, gross, high-flowing,
   high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, honky-tonk,
   inkhorn, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, loud, lurid,
   magniloquent, mean, meretricious, miserable, obscene, obtrusive,
   orotund, ostentatious, overbright, overdone, overelaborate,
   overinvolved, overwrought, paltry, pathetic, pedantic, phony,
   pitiable, pitiful, pompous, poor, pretentious, raffish, raw,
   rhetorical, ribald, rough, rubbishy, rude, sad, screaming, scrubby,
   scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, sensational, sensationalistic,
   sententious, shabby, sham, shameless, shoddy, showy, shrieking,
   sonorous, sorry, spectacular, stilted, tacky, tall, tasteless,
   tatty, tawdry, tinsel, tinselly, tortuous, trashy, trumpery,
   two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny,
   valueless, vile, vulgar, worthless, wretched

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